People, places and things
How did Pierre Curie (Marie Curie's husband) die?
He was killed in a horse-drawn carriage accident crossing the street in Paris, France
What is the equation for the derivative of by limit definition?
f'(x) = lim(h->0) [f(x+h)-f(c)]/h
How many minutes was the shortest space flight?
15 minutes
What is medical physics?
The application of physics principles to medicine, focusing on improving patient care through diagnostic and therapeutic technology
What is the biggest cause of anteater death?
Road accidents
Who was the first female commander of the international space station?
Peggy Whitson
True or false if a function is continuous at x equals a, then it has a tangent line at x = a
False. For example, the function f(x) = |x| is continuous at x = 0 but has no tangent line at that point
Where is the coldest place in the universe?
The boomerang nebula
What role does medical physics play in diagnostic imaging techniques like X-rays and MRI?
They ensure patient radiation exposure
Where are anteaters found?
Southern Mexico to Northern Argentina
What was Nikola Tesla's greatest defeat?
Tesla's abandoning of the telegraph. He expected to provide worldwide communication and to further finish facilities for sending pictures, messages, weather warnings, and stock reports. The project was abandoned because of a financial panic, labor troubles, and a financial supporter's withdrawal
What does a p-value represent and hypothesis testing?
The probability of observing the data if the null hypothesis is true
How can astronomers indirectly detect the presence of a black hole?
By measuring the gravitational effects on nearby objects
What term is used for a type of medical imaging that involves infecting patients with a radioactive tracer and capturing images of its distribution in the body?
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Which zoo holds the largest collection of giant anteaters in North America?
The Nashville Zoo
This mathematician suffered a severe febrile illness that nearly took their life. 3 years later, they began losing sight and their right eye, which was attributed to the strenuous work they did in the cartography to the St Petersburg academy. Who is this?
Leonard Euler
Solve this using synthetic division
(6x3 + 23x2 + 10x + 1) / (3x + 1)
2x2 + 7x +1
What are the three primary types of black holes?
Stellar black holes: formed from the remnants of massive stars with massive several times that of our sun
Intermediate black holes: with masses between stellar black holes and supermassive black holes
Supermassive black holes: found at the centers of most galaxies, including our own milky way. These Giants can have masses equivalent to millions or billions of suns
Medical physics is essential and ensuring the safe use of which radioactive material for medical diagnostics and treatments?
Technetium
What is the genus of the anteaters that lived during the Miocene epoch period?
Protamandua
What did Lene Vestergaard Hau's team succeed in?
They succeeded in slowing a pulse of light to 15 mph and also brought light to a stop.
They took matters further as they stopped and distinguished a light pulse and one part of space, and subsequently revived it in a different location. In the process, the light pulse is converted to a perfect matter copy that can be stored, sculpted, and then turned back into light. These results represent the ultimate quantum control of light and matter.
Use trig substitution to integrate the following:
1/(9x2-36x+37)1/2
(1/3)ln|sqrt(9(x-2)2+1)+3(x-2)|+C
What is the name of the boundary around a black holes a singularity, where gravitational forces become infinite?
Schwarzschild radius
Medical physicists are involved in which type of radiation therapy where a radiation source is placed inside or very close to the tumor?
Brachytherapy
What is the scientific name for a giant anteater?
Myrmecopyaga Tridactula